National Software Reference Library

National Software Reference Library

Abbreviation	NSRL
Type	GO
Parent organization	NIST
Website	http://www.nsrl.nist.gov/

The National Software Reference Library (NSRL), is a project of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) which maintains a repository of known software, file profiles and file signatures for use by law enforcement and other organizations involved with computer forensic investigations. The project is supported by the United States Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Defense Computer Forensics Laboratory (DCFL), the U.S. Customs Service, software vendors, and state and local law enforcement.^[1] It also provides a research environment for computational analysis of large sets of files.^[2]